Branden Klayko
For 10 years, urban policymakers have been talking more and more about the so-called "interested but concerned"—people who would like to bike more but who are, for some reason, held back.
Make biking attractive to those people, the thinking goes,...
When describing Louisville to my Yankee comrades, the feature that dominates my depiction of the place is the Ohio River. The river is magnificent and menacing; it’s the reason our dear city exists; its call so powerful that people...
The Beargrass Creek Greenway winds its way from Cherokee Park through Irish Hill toward the Ohio River—but taking the trail today, you'd never make it to the waterfront. The bike and pedestrian path includes two segments along the creek (marked...
Internationally renowned architect Michael Graves died Thursday of natural causes. Graves has designed over 350 buildings, but among the most important commissions was Louisville's 26-story Humana Building. His design was groundbreaking for its responsiveness to its historic context, evoking a...
There's something in the air in Louisville. The city's air pollution regularly ranks among the nation's worst, but a new data visualization project by designers in Brooklyn and data scientists in San Francisco launching next week hopes to raise...
As hard as we try to avoid doing so, humans tend to base racial assumptions around our personal experiences.
This can sometimes lead us to odd conclusions. As Homer Simpson once put it: "white people have names like Lenny, whereas...
An entire Downtown block—over 5.4 acres—sits as flat as a pancake, bounded by Witherspoon Street, Floyd Street, Washington Street, and Preston Street. A smooth sheet of asphalt gives 562 parked cars some of the best views of Louisville's Waterfront Park...
The Kentucky chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has released its list of top landscape architecture projects of the year, and there are some stunning examples of how the profession is shaping our experience of both...
Some of the most ostentatious construction projects are proposed, but never get off the ground. Work may begin, but projects languish unfinished for a variety of reasons.
In Newport, Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, a 1997 proposal would...